DiskRouter started as a project to look at network buffering to aid in wide-area data movement. In its present form, it is a piece of software that can be used to dynamically construct an application-level overlay network. It uses hierarchical buffering using memory and disk at the overlay nodes to help in wide-area data movement. DiskRouter provides a rich functionality. Application-level multicast, running computation on data streams and using higher-level knowledge for data-movement are some of the currently supported features.
DiskRouter has been deployed in a number of sites and has aided in tens of terabytes of wide-area transfers.DiskRouter is a research project by George Kola , Miron Livny and other
members of the Condor Team
at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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